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Impact is the energy transferred, from one thing to another. You can look at impact in three ways. The 3 “O’s” of impact. Outputs, outcomes, and opportunities.

Outputs. If you focus only on the noun level of agreements, in ecosynomic terms, you can only see your outputs. You are only focused on the specific outputs, the observable nouns, of the resources in your immediate environment. You might be able to make assumptions about the impact of your outputs, but you cannot see the impacts, because that would require seeing over space in your relationships with others and over choices made in time. These over-space-time capacities are not allowed in noun-only thinking. The math of noun-only thinking integrated out movement over space and time to see how much noun is available. You can see your outputs, as you react to what is happening. You have some impact (X).

Outcomes. If you focus on the verb and noun levels of agreements, in ecosynomic terms, you can see the outcomes of your activities, as they impact others over time. At this level, you can see the outputs, the activities, and the outcomes–a much richer picture than just the outputs. You can learn from your outcomes, improving your activities to get better outcomes. You can multiply your impact (nX).

Opportunities. If you focus on the light, verb, and noun levels of agreements, in ecosynomic terms, you can see the opportunities, in what is being learned from previous activities and from the new possibilities emerging. The intersection of what was learned from the outcomes of past activities and the emerging possibilities is where you find opportunities, potentials that you can experiment with, finding pathways of relationships with which to manifest the potentials. At this level, you can see the outputs, the activities, the outcomes, the lessons learned, the emerging potentials, and the opportunities to manifest them. You can evolve your learning and your activities, asking new questions, scaling the impact you can have (X^n).

When you look at impact, you can choose to look at outputs, outcomes, or opportunities. You can have an impact, multiply your impact, or scale your impact. What is the return on your impact investment? Is the investment for opportunities much greater than for outcomes or outputs? Which is more efficient, more effective? It is a choice, a choice that depends on your agreements.